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The Roanoke Beacon **♦4**4 and Washington County News ******* Advertisers will find Beacon and News Columns a latchkey to 1,500 Washington County homes. VOLUME LI—NUMBER 25 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, June 20, 1940 ESTABLISHED 1889 ( Town opics A total of 8,325 school children In Currituck, Dare, Hyde. Tyrrell and Washington Counties were given ex aminations last term by physicians or health nurses of the district health department, it was revealed today by Dr. S. V. Lewis, district health offi cer. Oyster shells and sand have been'placed on the lane leading from the Turnpike Road to the Blackland Experiment Station at YVenona. making a passable road road at all timts on the mile and a quarter stretch, according to J. 1.. Rea. jr., assistant director in charge of the farm. Tom Sykes, a State Highway Com mission employee, said today that he understood oysters shells and sand would be placed on Highway No. 99. commonly known as the Turnpike load, with the work already in prog ress. in an effort to have a road which is passable under all weather condi tions. The Rev. and Mrs. Gilbert Da vis and son. Gilbert, jr., of Bell Arthur, were in town Monday on business. The minister was for merly mayor and a merchant in Plymouth. They returned to their Pitt County home by way of llobgood. where they visited friends. J. R. Carney, of Portsmouth, has been transferred to Plymouth as a representative for an insurance com pany. He has been with the com pany for eight years and asked for the privilege of taking over the com pany’s work here. VV. A. Worsham, of Norfolk, a claim adjuster who has been with the Norfolk Southern Rail road Company for 33 years, was in the office this week. His wife is the former Miss Fantine Dil lon, a sister of Mrs. W. A. Swain, whom they are visiting. L. W. Gurkin. owner of Albemarle Beach, said today that attendance at the beach this summer was far ahead of that of the same period last sum mer. Larger groups of people are go ing there every Wednesday afternoon and during the week-ends to escape the heat. Girls on Motor Club Tour Here Sunday -$ Home-cooked food served in the Southern manner at Williford’s Tav ern impressed the four beautiful young ladies on the Carolina Motor1 Club's tour her*?™Sundry, iks we.i as the historic and scenic spots, indus trial plants and other places of inter est visited here between 10:30 and 2 o’clock. With two each from North and South Carolina chosen from among 400 contestants in an "Ideal Carolina Girl" contest, the four and three oth ers are on an expense-paid tour of scenic and recreational centers in the Carolina as part of the club’s plan to promote travel in and to the Caro tin as. The young ladies were Katherine Meier, of Wrightsville Beach, and Marian Galloway, of Greensboro, of this state, and Catherine Robinson, of Charleston, S. C., and Loraine Ina bet, of Orangeburg, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tribble were in charge of arrangements. Entertaining the group were Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Man ning for the merchants association; W. R. Hampton, member of the Board of Conservation and Development; and Miss Carol Bateman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Bateman, who was acquainted with one of the young ladies. After visiting the Grace Episcopal Church and other places of interest, including the North Carolina Pulp Company plant and the Plymouth Box & Panel Company plant, the party had lunch at Williford's Tav ern and then went to the Plymouth Country Club for a while. -» Sunday Program at Local Episcopal Church Outlined -» "What Christian People Often For get" is the subject chosen by Wil liam Daniels, student minister en gaged in summer work here, for the sermon at the Grace Episcopal church Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, when he will lead the service. Sunday school will be held at 10 o’clock. Several innovations sug gested by the minister in revitalizing the church school will be followed. The Young People’s Service League will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tom Hamp ton, Zeno Lyon, jr„ Walter and Rex Paramore attended the annual con vention of the league at Camp Leach near Washington last week-end. Four Carloads oi Cucumbers Shipped From Receiving Point Here This Week Cucumbers are coming into the receiving plant here at the Nor folk Southern freight station daily in increasing numbers, it was learned today from W. C. Spencer, of Venice, Fla., who is in charge of receiving and grad ing the crop. The grading is done by machinery. The price being paid is $15 per ton, which was the price agreed upon in contracts made with the growers last spring by the Man hattan Produce Company, which has a total of about 450 acres under contract in Washington, Tyrrell and parts of Chowan Counties. All of the cucumbers covered by these contracts are to be delivered to the station here. The cucumbers are being ship ped to New York in refrigerator cars, of which about four had been dispatched up to today. Weathers conditions delayed growth and maturity of the crop to some extent, and the peak of the shipping season will be reached about July 5, Mr. Spen cer said. | IN SECOND PRIMARY SATURDAY, JUNE 22 The only contest for any office in the Democratic second primary to be held Saturday, is that for nomination as treasurer of Washing ton County between Linwood W. Hassell lleft), present holder of the office, and WT. S. (Bill) Davenport (right). In the first primary May 25 there were five candidates for the office, four of which were closely bunched, with the two above eliminating the others. Hassell was high man in the race, leading Davenport by 28 votes. Begin Bang’s Disease Eradication Program Over 500 Carloads Potatoes Shipped So far a total of 550 carloads of irisli potatoes has been shipped from Tyrrell and the lower end of Washington County during the current season, according to R. H. Chesson, station agent of the Norfolk Southern at Mackeys. The price this week has been from 90c to S1.20 per 100-pound bag of U. S. No. 1 potatoes. Mr. Chesson said shipping had dropped off now to about 15 cars daily, and he thinks that possibly by next week all of the growers in the Washington and Tyrrell producing areas would conclude their shiprumts. '« Sheriff Looking for John Henry Moore Finds Six of Them However, He Finally Weeds Them Out and Gets His Man Sheriff J. K. Reid combed a list of six John Henry Moores in Plymouth yesterday before he found the 30 year-old colored man wanted in Wash ington, N. C., for shooting and seri ously injuring his wife, Maggie Moore, on March 11, 1939. The officer went to both of the large industrial plants here and talk ed with five other John Moores be fore he found the right one. The sixth man steadfastly denied he was the one wanted for a time, but the sheriff brought him in. Sheriff William Rumley, of Beau fort County, came over for the pris oner later Wednesday and carried him back to jail in Washington. It was reported that the negro had mar ried while here. i -® Local Parly Back From World's Fair A dozen Plymouth people returned this week from a visit to the World’s Pair in New York, where they went under special arrangements made by the Ford Motor Company through J. R. Manning and J. B. Willoughby, local Ford dealers. Returning Tuesday were Mrs. Cleve land Beasley, W. R. Gaylord, W. M. Darden, B. G. Campbell and Dr. W. H. Johnson, while Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Satterthwaite, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bateman, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Wil loughby and Mrs. J. H. Newkirk re turned Wednesday. The party left last Friday after noon, the latter group arranging for an extended visit of a day longer. All County Cattle Will Be Tested by State Veterinarian Strict Quarantine Against Cattle Coming Into This County Enforced A program for the control and eradication of Bang's Disease in cat tle was started in Washington Coun ty Tuesday of this week, when Dr. Cecil E. Hill, State veterinarian, be gan testing cattle cattle at the Spring wood Dairy in a campaign which will be extended to include all the cat tle in the entire county. With the starting of the campaign in the county, a strict quarantine was promulgated, an order being issued as follows: "No female cattie six months or over, or bulls of any age. shall be allowed to be driven, trans ported, or allowed to stray into Washington County, except upon the official permission from a duly au thorized quarantine inspector in ac cordance with the livestock sanitary laws and regulations of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture." Bang’s Disease, a form of contagi ous abortion, is transmissible to hu mans, it was said, and the only effect ive control is to examine every head of cattle in specified areas, which are put in strict quarantine. Since there is no effective treatment for the dis ease, infected cattle are destroyed, although in some instances butcher ing for beef is permitted if the vet erinarian decides it is safe. Owners are paid for the destroyed cattle by the state and federal governments, on a basis decided by appraisal, rang ing up to $50 a head for pure-bred cattle and to $25 a head for grade stock. The campaigns are undertaken by county units, this county legally com ing under the terms of the 1937 act passed by the General Assembly, “To assist in the control and eradication of Bang’s Disease,” in which the state is cooperating with the United States Bureau of Animal Industry. The Washington County Commis sioners urge the full cooperation of cattle growers in the county with the program designed to control and eradicate the disease among cattle in the county to prevent its transmission to humans. a copy oi me uvesiocx sanitary laws and regulations dealing with the program may be had upon request to the State Veterinarian at Raleigh, it was said by Mr. Hays. -$ Cattle Association In Meet Tuesday Members of the Eastern Carolina Cattle Breeders and Feeders Associa tion were advised by speakers Tus day night to control breding and to purchase only cattle that had been tested and found free of Bang’s Dis ease and tuberculosis. Speakers included L. I. Case, spec ialist in animal husbandry of the ex tension division of State College; Joe Sugg, livestock marketing agent for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; Dr. Tyler, a veterinarian. A committee, composed of J. L. Rea, A. J. Riddle, P. H. Darden, Sam Spruill, and W. V. Hays, was appoint ed by President W. M. Darden to as sist their communities with the Bangs Disease eradication program now un derway in the county. R. L. Coburn, of Williamston; L. E. Hassell, of Roper; and County Agent W. V. Hays were named a committee to interview Mr. Greene, secretary of the Washington Production Credit Association, relative to the credit as sociation financing cattle breeding and feeding. It was decided that hereafter the monthly meetings would be held on the last Friday in each month Red Cross Donations During Past Week Bring Total to $183 County Quota Has Been Doubled From $300 To $600 Witli the Red Cross Fund for re lief of European war refugees almost stationary in the county, it was an nounced yesterday by Chairman Jas. W. Norman, of the local chapter, that the county quota had been doubled from $300 to $600, Collections since last week raised the total to $183.27. Reported up to last week was a to tal of $164.67, to which have been added the following donations this week: Methodist Sunday School, $12.61: Willing Workers Class of the Christian Sunday School, $2.50: Mrs. Laura S. Johnston, $2: a friend. $1: and Mrs. L. T. Rose. 50 cents. The week’s total is $18.61. running the grand total collected so far to $183.28. The workers here have still not received any report from the Cres well section, but it was expected by Mr. Norman, chairman, and Mrs. H. A. Liverman. treasurer, that the peo ple of that section would soon have a good report. In a statement issued today. Mr. Norman said: ‘‘The American Red Cross is striving to provide the neces sities of life for the ever-increasing number of refugees in France, Bel gium. and other countries in the war torn zone, where millions are home less, without food, clothing, medicine or shelter. In some places, men, women and children fight for a crust of bread. "The German war machine is ruth lessly killing and wounding thous ands, leaving the wounded to die by slow degrees of hunger, thirst and disease. One cannot, in a land of security, imagine the horror of it all. The Red Cross is doing everything humanly possible to stretch every dollar to its utmost capacity in aid ing these unfortunate people and to date the Washington County chapter has raised only $183.28 of the $600 requested. “On behalf of the Red Cross, may I ask every person in the county to make some contribution to the cause. If you have given, give more. The amount requested can be raised with your help. Let the riunday schools, churches and other organizations ral ly to the call for help." -- Two Cars of Lambs Shipped Tuesday by Producers in Seclion Shipment Totals 265 Ani mals, Weighing Over 16,000 Pounds Producers of this section sold two carloads of 265 lambs, weighing, 16. 805 pounds, through the Plymouth Mutual Livestock Marketing Associa tion here Tuesday, according to Coun ty Agent W. V. Hays, who said the shipment was consigned to the Arbree Commission Company, of the Jersey City stock yards, with the actual sale to be handled by the commission firm in their city. Mr. Hays said it would be nexet week before returns were received and value of the sale determined, but he said he hoped the lambs would bring about the following prices: Choice, II cents a pound; medium, 10 cents; common, 8Y2 cents; and culls, 7‘2 cents. m addition to tne snipment, two pure-bred Hampshire rams were pur chased outright at the sale by J. P. Woodard, of Swan Quarter: and a Mr. Taylor, of Whitakers. L. E. Hassell, of Roper, also exchanged an other ram with another party whose name Mr. Hays did not remember. Mr. Hays said pure-bred rams be ing distributed among herds in this section had greatly improved the flocks, making possible better returns from the lambs that were sold. Es pecially, he said, could the favorable results be seen at the sale of the five rams purchased and the five rams exchanged at the sale held in June of last year. Union and Plan! Officials Confer It was understood here today that representatives of the local union of pulp plant workers and officials of the North Carolina Pulp Company began a series of conferences yesterday afternoon looking to renewal of the con tract between the company and the union which has expired or will expire very soon. Up to noon today it was impossible to get in touch with either the union rep resentatives or the company of ficials to learn how the negotia tions were proceeding. It was understood earlier this week that several changes In the contract would be sought by the workers, but neither the nature of the changes nor the status of the negotiations could be learned up to noon. Farmers of Washington County to Ballot July 20 in Referendum on 3-Year Tobacco Control Program Meetings to Explain Plan Will Be Held Throughout County F'ield Officer Says Fate of Program Left in Hands Of Farmers An intensive campaign will likely be waged in Washington County in the next four weeks by tobacco grow ers for a control program, with farm leaders from here who attended a meeting of farmers in Williamston last Thursday probably taking the lead in behalf of the marketing quo tas plan to be voted on in a refer endum to be held Saturday, July 20. Those who atended the William ston meeting heard J. E. Broom, of Aurora, field officer for the Agricul tural Adjustment Adminiseration. state that the fate of the program lay with the farmers, that the state extension service and the Agricultur al Administration would gladly pro vide the facts, but that all campaign ing for passage of the program would have to originate with the farmers and their friends, including business men. warehousemen, civic and com mercial organizations. Present at the meeting from this county were R. L. Stillman, of Roper; C, W. Bowen, Plymouth; H. G. Simp son, Plymouth; W. S. Moore, voca tional agriculture teacher in the Plymouth schools; and Stuart Blow, clerical assistant to County Agent W. V. Hays. Mr. Hays attended a sim ilar meeting in Edenton Friday. It is reasonably certain that the government will cooperate with the farmers and possibly enter the mar kets in the fall if a three-year con trol program is adopted, Mr. Broome said, and it is quite certain that the government will have no part in the marketing program if quotas are vot ed down. This stand, continued Mr. Broome, is taken by the government in conformity with sound business practices and is not taken to coerce farmers in expressing their opinion with the ballot at the referendum. According to Mr. Broome, any to bacco grower who expects to derive any income from the crop this year is entitled to vote in the July 20 ref erendum. He may vote for a three year program or vote against a three year program; vote for quotas for one year or against any control program whatever. To get the three-year pro gram two-thirds of those voting must favor that and nothing else. Informational meetings will be held in tlie county within the next few weeks, with speakers explaining the details of the program to the farm ers. Small Boats Have Rough Trip Home Seven people in five small boats had a rough journey through choppy waters from Manteo to Plymouth Sunday afternoon after a week-end on the Atlantic seashore, where mem bers of the party enjoyed surf bath ing boating and fishing. They left here Saturday afternoon for Manteo and had a pleasant trip over a calm sound. Leaving Manteo at 1 o'clock Sun Say afternoon the group, composed of L. D. Jones, Carlisle Doughtie, Joe Smith, Harry Gurkin, R. S. Martin, Hubert Britton and Raymond Leg gett, expected to arrive here by 4 o’clock, but due to the buffeting the small craft took from wind and waves it was 8 o'clock before they reached dome. The trip caried them across Croa tan Sound, Alligator River and up Albemarle Sound and Roanoke River for a total of 50 miles. It was said the winds were very strong when they crossed the mouth of Alligator River, and the voyage across it was very dangerous. The little fleet, driven by outboard motors, was kept throttled down on the return voyage to prevent swamp ing in the heavy seas running. --<$> To Begin Vacation Bible School Here A Daily Vacation Bible School un der the auspices of the Plymouth Methodist Church will begin next Tuesday. June, and continue through Wednesday, July 3, with classes be ing held between 9 and 10:30 each week day except Saturday at the Hampton Academy on Main Sheet The faculty will include Mrs. Cath erine Harrison, Mrs. Robert Bowen, Mrs. A. Lloyd Owens. Miss Carolyn Brinkley, Miss Helen Harrison and Miss Camille Burgess. Children between the ages oi 4 and 13 are invited to attend. Certificates will be awarded those attending a specified number of classes The daily schedule will include class I work, devotional, work and play, w ith refreshments served each day Summer Officially Here Tomorrow While the weather of the past week or so is second only to the European War as a topic of con versation, along: comes the World Almanac to remind us that what we have been having are only mild spring days, in a manner of speaking, since summer hasn't arrived as yet. According to that erudite promptuary of inconso nant and inefficacious acroama tism (line for dictionary forms on right), the summer season will officially begin with the summer solstice at exactly 8:37 a. m. to morrow morning, June 21, from and after which it will be perfect ly in order to refer to “this - summer weather,” with embel lishments to suit the individual taste. Incidentally, the day is also commonly referred to as the long est of the year, although here again the almanac shows its com plete indifference to general thinking by listing several other days right about this time with the same number of minutes be tween sunrise and sunset. Three From Counly Will Be in National Guard War Games -® W. B. Rodman, Stuart Blow And Bill Thompson in Washington Battery Corporal W. Blount Rodman will shed the habiliments of an attorney for the khaki of the United States Army on August 4, when he joins other members of Battery C, 113th Field Artillery, North Carolina Na tional Guard, of Washington, for a three-week period of war games in Louisiana, Mississippi or Texas. The only other two national guardsmen who will accompany him from Wash ington County are Stuart Blow, cleri cal assistant to County Agent W. V. Hays and Bill Thompson, insurance man, also of the Washington battery. Guardsmen from North Carolina* Tennessee. Georgia and Alabama are expected to make up one force in the maneuvers, while those from other states will comprise an opposing army for the period of the war games. This marks the first time field maneuvers for Guardsmen have lasted longer than one week. A week was devoted to this phase of activity last fall. Corporal Rodman is following in the footsteps of his father, Wiley C. Rodman, who was a colonel in the National Guard before the World War and became a captain in the field artillery during the war. A brother. W. C. Rodman, jr„ is a first lieuten ant in Battery C now. Sunday School at Zions Chapel in Need of Desk -- A table with drawers or a small desk is desired for a Sunday School room at Zion Chapel Christian Church, according to Mrs. R. W. Lewis, who said while here last week that the Sunday school would be will ing to buy one cheaply unless some liberal-minded persons would con tribute something that could be used as a secretary’s desk. Anyone who has such a small item of furniture to dispose of is asked to get in touch with Mrs. Lewis, route one. Roper, about the matter. Creswell Methodist Church Plans Church School Day Creswell.—Church school day will be observed at the Methodist church Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, when each Sunday school class will take part in the program. A very inter esting play will be presented in three episodes. The public is urged to at tend. Market Situation Is Said More Serious Than in 1930- 1932 Two-Thirds Vote Required To Make Plan Effective For Three Years Faced with a market situation even more serious than that of 1930 1932. flue-cured tobacco growers of North Carolina and other Southern States will go to the polls July 20 to vote on a three-year control plan. Redent amendments to the quota provisions of the AAA program have authorized this referendum, which, if voted on favorably by a two-thirds or more majority, would set up quotas on the 1941. 1942 and 1943 crops. Heretofore, growers have voted on only their next crop. E. Y. Floyd. AAA executive officer of N. C. State College, said any loan arrangements to support the market will depend upon a decision by grow ers to regulate marketings. A ma jority vote against quotas would au tomatically eliminate any government loans. If quotas are voted for three years, the AAA executive officer explained, domestic manufacturers can pay fair prices for their tobacco without fear of excessive production during the period. Then, too, the export trade will be more likely to make purchases at reasonable prices, and the govern ment can give maximum support to prices for the export grades. Probably the greatest single factor in the present distressed situation is the 1939 crop, which was grown with out regard to allotments. Flinging caution to the winds, growers barned a 1.160,000.000-pounld crop. 34 per cent higher than the previous rec rd crop of 1937. The result was a 400,000.000-pound surplus. The second reason, and perhaps al most as great as the overproduction factor, was the loss of or the serious ly curtailed foreign markets as a re sult of the present European conflict. Coming together, the two dragged prices down to an average of 14.8 cents a pound for the season. Tire previous five-year average was 22.9 cents. In recent years exports to Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium. Netherlands. Denmark and Norway have represented from two-thirds to three-fourths of the total exports from the United States. Usually one third of the crop is sold to the Brit ish trade. As the British buy the bet ter grades, nearly one-lialf of the to - tal income is from this source. Thief Gets Part of Dance Proceeds The Junior Woman's Auxiliary of Grace Episcopal Church sponsored a dance at the Plymouth High School gymnasium Tuesday night which had a large attendance, and they would have realized about $25 in profit ex cept for later developments, which somewhat complicates the matter. The young ladies counted up the proceeds and found they had made a fair profit after deducting about $6 which was put into the nickelodian for music. Then, Wednesday morn ing, it was found that the mechanized music-maker had been robbed and the machine damaged. It is not be lieved that Bosie Horton, who pro vided the machine for the dance, will hold the auxiliary responsible for the damage, but the members will lose a share of the money which was stolen. -<$>-• Program of Services At Methodist Church Rev. O. L. HARDWICK, Pastor Regular services will be held at die Methodist Church Sunday, with ;he Rev. O. L. Hardwick, the pastor, preaching at 11 a. m. and 8 p. in. Jhurch school will meet at 9:45 and ;he Junior League at 2, also the Ep yorth League at 7 p. m. The public is invited to attend. Observers Looking for Less Than 1,000 Ballots in Second Primary Saturday The present outlook is that a small proportion of the Wash ington County eleeorate will re turn to the polls Saturday to de cide between VV. Linwood Hassell and W. S. (Bill) Davenport as the Democratic nominee for the post of county treasurer. Since there are no state or dis trict offices at stake in the sec ond primary, the two candidates for treasurer, who eliminated three others in the first round on May 25, will be on the ticket by themselves. The ballots have been print ed—an ample supply—but politi ral observers believe there will be hardly more than 900 to 1,000 votes east in the primary, against the 1,576 east in the first pri mary. The winner of the nomi nation will then have to face the electorate for the third time at the general election In November, when the name of W ,T. Phelps, Creswell merchant, will be on the Republican side of the ballot. In the first primary, the vote for the five candidates for treas urer was as follows: VV. Lin wood Hassell. 429; VV. S. (Bill) Daven port, 401; Stuart D. Davis, 380; Richard C. Peacock, S70; ami Timothy M, Bowen, 50,